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Alleged George Tiller Shooter Scott Roeder May Have Suffered From Mental Illness
Life News ^ | 6/1/09 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 06/01/2009 1:17:54 PM PDT by wagglebee

Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Scott Roeder, the 51-year-old Kansas man who authorities have detained as the only suspect in the shooting of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, may have suffered from mental illness. That's according to his ex-wife, who said in a recent interview that Roeder always held extremist views.

Lindsey Roeder, who divorced Roeder in 1996 after 10 years of marriage, told the Topeka Capital-Journal that Roeder had a mental evaluation in the mid 1990s.

Although he did not believe he had any mental health issues, “everyone else did," she told the newspaper.

“He just felt these were his views,” she said of his position supporting the killing of people who kill others, such as abortion practitioners. "He followed the view of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

"It scared me," she said of his approach, which has been linked to militia and anti-government groups and attitudes.

Meanwhile, Roeder's family released a statement, according to the newspaper, saying. “We are shocked, horrified and filled with sadness at the death of Dr. Tiller and the circumstances surrounding it that may have involved Scott Roeder."

The statement confirmed the mental health problems, but said Roeder was otherwise a nice guy.

“We know Scott as a kind and loving son, brother and father who suffered from mental illness at various times in his life," it said. "However, none of us ever saw Scott as a person capable of or willing to take another person’s life. Our deepest regrets, prayers and sympathy go out to the Tiller family during this terrible time.”

After serving 16 months in prison following a parole violation after officials found a license plate altered with anti-government slogans and bombmaking materials in his car and home, a Shawnee County District Court judge said Roeder presented a "threat of danger to the public."

Law enforcement officials told the Capital Journal newspaper at the time that Roeder was a "loving" but "obsessed" man, but maintained they didn't expect him to actually hurt anyone.

Roeder has no links to any legitimate pro-life group other than a couple of postings on a public forum on a pro-life web site. Otherwise, he has never been a volunteer of, staff member of or in any way associated with either national, state or local pro-life groups.

That and hundreds of condemnations of the Tiller shooting from pro-life groups hasn't stopped abortion advocates from exploiting Tiller's death for political gain and blaming pro-life advocates for his death.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; mentalillness; prolife; roeder; scottroeder; tiller
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To: Borges

“If this line of inquiry keeps up then the story will become ‘How did a mentally ill man get a gun?’”

And then that will become, all gun owners are mentally ill.


41 posted on 06/01/2009 2:16:03 PM PDT by pallis
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; Lady Jag; wagglebee; All; yorkie; ...

42 posted on 06/01/2009 2:19:43 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: MrB

Your English teacher?


43 posted on 06/01/2009 2:22:27 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Morgana

You ever try to “do” something about a mentally ill person before they hurt someone (or themselves)?

The criminal revolving door has got nothing on the mentally ill revolving door. It flings them back out on an unsuspecting public at machine gun velocity.


44 posted on 06/01/2009 2:24:04 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Always be prepared to make that difference.)
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To: potlatch

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Outstanding potlatch

Perspective


45 posted on 06/01/2009 2:24:30 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . Obama confiscated Teacher & Police Union pension funds? . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: wagglebee

They can portray us however they like. They already frame us like right-wing extremists anyway. When the last killing or bombing took place, the pro-life movement was set for a backlash, and it never happened. The current polling is in our favor right now.


46 posted on 06/01/2009 2:25:02 PM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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To: devolve

Thanks devolve. I liked my results, don’t know if others will.


47 posted on 06/01/2009 2:28:46 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

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Outrage at your .gif will prove self-defeating

Well conceived graphic


48 posted on 06/01/2009 2:32:41 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . Obama confiscated Teacher & Police Union pension funds? . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: wagglebee

No sale. He was smart enough to plan the crime. Fry him!


49 posted on 06/01/2009 2:33:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (The Huskies are Gator Bait!)
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To: wagglebee

He’s liberal... of course he has a mental condition.


50 posted on 06/01/2009 2:33:22 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A GUTLESS SOCIALIST LOSER WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: Valpal1
The criminal revolving door has got nothing on the mentally ill revolving door. It flings them back out on an unsuspecting public at machine gun velocity.

True. At least in my State, emergency involuntary commitment only lasts for 72 hours. Then the by-now angry mental case gets released. He can then go after the family member(s) who put him in there in the first place. He doesn't view them as doing him any favors.

51 posted on 06/01/2009 2:34:31 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.foundersvalues.com/)
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To: devolve

From Heaven to hot coals in one scene


52 posted on 06/01/2009 2:36:00 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: wagglebee
Scott Roeder, the 51-year-old Kansas man who authorities have detained as the only suspect in the shooting of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, may have suffered from mental illness.

Nah, ya think?

53 posted on 06/01/2009 2:44:27 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: MrB
humblegunner is on some sort of grammar/spelling nazi thing just ignore him.
54 posted on 06/01/2009 3:34:58 PM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: wagglebee
SSRIs

55 posted on 06/01/2009 3:54:50 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: CzarNicky
humblegunner is on some sort of grammar/spelling nazi thing just ignore him.

Yes, like the rules of English.

Write like retards, get called on it.

Listen to the law.

56 posted on 06/01/2009 4:08:30 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: potlatch
Nice. I seriously wonder what the family and coworkers of Tiller would say to this pic. For that matter what any proabortion person would say. No doubt they have their answer but as a matter of clinical interest I would like to hear it.
57 posted on 06/01/2009 4:18:10 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: wagglebee



58 posted on 06/01/2009 4:53:00 PM PDT by Salvation ( With God all things are possible.)
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To: potlatch

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Can’t you just see the rage of the NOW bunch when they see your graphic?


59 posted on 06/01/2009 4:59:36 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . Obama confiscated Teacher & Police Union pension funds? . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: devolve
Oh, I doubt they even do devolve.

If it makes some liberals who lurk here rethink about a man who killed SIXTY THOUSAND babies, then it did its job.

60 posted on 06/01/2009 5:10:12 PM PDT by potlatch ( When You Change The Way You Look At Things - The Things You Look At Change)
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